skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Were that true, I doubt all the bribery and corruption would have been allowed to destroy their military equipment.

I wasn’t precise enough. He does not control every individual specifically, just all organisations (as in, there is none that dares to contradict him, and the people in charge who do, don’t do it for long).

That’s a consequence of the power structure. It is optimised to avoid factions and keeping dissenting voices under control, but micromanagement has its limits. To some extent, corruption also helps in several ways at the highest levels. This seems to be one of the reasons why they cannot stop it. It enables selective enforcement, and is an effective tool to get rid of people who get too powerful, too independent, or not obedient enough (there are many examples of this in the last couple of years: when Putin wants to reshuffle the government he finds corruption charges). It seems that this culture spread down the ranks and pervades the whole state.

> I’m surprised they were able to shoot a plane down at all.

If anything, a civilian aircraft is a sitting duck for anti-aircraft missiles: it has no decoys, no flares, no jamming or any kind of countermeasures. Surely, not shooting it down when firing at it takes some effort. Also, we don’t know how many missiles were fired.
But Tesla isn’t the only game in town, and eg Waymo seems to have a far better safety record. They’re doing “engineering” as it should be done, not “move fast and break people”, which is fine for websites but not great on the road.

That’s similar to how I feel about LLM’s. Amazing as an input to a system but you need real engineering guardrails around them.
I really, really like this approach! Rather than trying to build a full graph of related low-level components from function calls etc., which is almost always overwhelming, this just finds the "vibes" of how modules are named in the filesystem, and how they relate to common design patterns - which in many cases is exactly what you want for exploring a codebase or understanding the scope of its offering.

https://github.com/ahmedkhaleel2004/gitdiagram/blob/main/bac... - the prompts in question. Don't sell yourself short as per the comments, they're very well designed prompts!

Using an inexpensive LLM to summarize each file might be an interesting next step, putting few-word summaries alongside the filenames in much the same setup you currently have! But, honestly, it may not be particularly necessary for large existing open-source projects that have already bikeshedded their file naming over many iterations, and/or have highly intentional structures for maintainability.
AGI isn't until it meets some arbitrary criteria you made up. When it does it's the next arbitrary criteria that you just made up.
you can get a fairphone 4 in the USA. rooting and replacing with calyx is a thing.
> Editors, especially in mathematics, should be able to judge the work on its merits.

It's not a mathematical paper.

The AMS version is headed:

> This essay incorporates with permission material from our pseudonymous colleague XOR'easter, who also contributed many suggestions during the writing process. By the extent of XOR’easter’s contributions, they would normally be credited as an author. However it was not possible in time to find a way to strictly preserve anonymity and assign legal copyright. All four contributors disagree with this exclusion. I regret its necessity — Ed.
I don’t disagree with your main point but I want to push back on the notion that “there is no other animal close to humans in intelligence”. This is only true in the sense that we humans define intelligence in human terms. Intelligence is a very fraught and problematic concept both in philosophy, but especially in the sciences (particularly psychology).

If we were dogs surely we would say that humans were quite skillful, impressively so even, in pattern matching, abstract thought, language, etc. but are hopelessly dumb at predicting past presence via smell, a crow would similarly judge us on our inability to orient our selves, and probably wouldn’t understand our language and thus completely miss our language abilities. We do the same when we judge the intelligence of non-human animals or systems.

So the reason for why no other animal is close to us in intelligence is very simple actually, it is because of the way we define intelligence.
Even if so, that's a different claim from the content being political.
Great idea - to make this happen we either need to solve the housing affordability crisis in high-density areas, or spread job opportunities around to lower-density areas.

My friends are in a diverse set of fields, finding a place with jobs for all of them isn't feasible right now.
Ah! My search-fu failed me, I was looking for company name and for train hacking mentions, but didn't find all these! Thank you!
I don't understand why people post paywalled content on HN.
Thanks for sharing that...I don't use the pro plan so I built this extension to allow everyone to bookmark their important chats for free
Yes. When the muse makes the booty call, answer the damn phone.
The vast majority of "Chinese spies" report on other Chinese. It resembles how the DDR had 1 in 6 people as an informer.
You seem to have a weirdly strong hatred for boba.

It’s okay if something isn’t for you!
The safety of air travel should be lauded as one of mankind's greatest achievements.

I'm infinitely more anxious driving home from the airport than at any time in the air.
Last I looked, join points hadn't made it into GHC Core directly - do you know if the ideas in the join points paper were introduced to (mainline) GHC in the end?

edit: it looks like there's distinct Core join points now, never mind!
That isn't accurate. Unless they are physically stopping you from speaking, they are not suppressing it. They're just not amplifying it.
i use the base mac/Windows terminals and have never had any issues. what are the main things that draw people to alternatives?
Make Christmas great again!
Spending power is a freedom, not freedom or the freedom. It's not equal, it's a part of.
The Russians could certainly say the same about the West.
curious about what tools you're using - is it just chatgpt? Any other apps/services/models?
is it common/allowed to have set types instead of the A/B/C symbols? or the A/B/C simply implies the sets differ, because functions did something to them? I mean - can you write N, R, C... ?

otherwise - very very very neat explanation, thanks a thousand times.
Really cool!

On osX BetterTouchTool can also do radial menus!

Would there be a way to import/export a menu configuration from your tool as a .json?
Forgot to say: you can buy Tretinoin at the pharmacy, over the counter even depending on where you are. They sell it as a treatment for acne. It's also shown to reduce wrinkles in RCTs [1]. It's dirt cheap and you absolutely don't need to buy it as a beauty cream and pay ten times the price.

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[1] Topical tretinoin for treating photoaging: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials (2022)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9112391/
Because it's still a good article and can be unpaywalled. I believe we're supposed to link the original source and someone can just comment the sci-hub/archive.ph/whatever. Same reason you'd cite the original in a paper.
Usually someone will come along and post a link that gets around the paywall.
I would love to, but I come from a place where intellectual pursuits are not valued, so I would lose out on that front if I moved back. I’m the type who needs to always be learning. So I would always need to be in a big city.

Alain Bertaud, the urbanist, recently said, “the big contribution of cities is randomness.” And he continues: “You don't know what to expect. You don't know who you will meet. And, it's precisely because you meet people who are different from you, who have different ideas. Sometime even it could be obnoxious people. I think obnoxious people — I mean, what I consider obnoxious — are necessary in order to stimulate.”

In North America, there is a very strong cultural preference to isolate oneself (probably a residual effect of the frontier spirit). Hence a strong preference for suburban single family homes with backyards (“for the kids and the dog”) and which results in spread out developments where people rarely have to interact. That’s fine — but realize that’s a cultural preference.

I grew up in a house with no backyard and had an idyllic childhood. I knew my neighbors and biked to the playground. I was as happy as a clam. To this day, I don’t feel any need to own a house with a backyard. That is also a cultural preference.
Am I interpreting the data correctly in that, whatever protective effect was found on Taxi drivers and Ambulance drivers, was actually aggravated on Ship Captains and Airline Pilots?

My immediate thought went to the negative effect of sleep quality and work schedules, but I would expect the same sleep strain/stress for Ambulance drivers. A lot going on epidemiology wise but interesting study nevertheless.
Real nice so far.

The fact it does its own window decoration is a bit of a turn-off, but:

A quick test of speed against wezterm and gnome-terminal show ghostty (on my laptop) to be around 3 times faster than both of the other.

Will definitely try it for a couple of weeks.
Yes, it should apply for all companies and non-profits and religious orgs. But I would be surprised if it really happens.
This is really interesting bro
Show HN: Minimal, self-hosted exercise tracker
After decades of tracking my exercise programs in progressively more complex spreadsheets I eventually burned out on metrics and complicated periodization programs to the point where I had almost stopped exercising.

I am now at a place where I simply want the minimal amount of structure and tracking to make sure I can maintain my fitness, so I boiled the entire concept down to what I felt was its essence: enough information and structure to remind you of what is needed today, and how it went on the same exercises last week.

To reduce friction, the interface is kept as simple as possible. Simple to the point where all setup is done by editing the html source file and there is only one freeform "weight" textbox per exercise to manipulate. Data is autosaved as it is entered. It never nags or judges you except by showing the last date you entered data in for that day-of-the-week's exercises. The only quality-of-life feature is a super-simple rest period timer in the footer.

It has no external dependencies and only uses browser local storage. There is no possibility of monetizing it.

I was on the fence about sharing since it is such a small and simple project, but decided I would share here in case anyone is looking to make a fresh start in the new year and finds the philosophy appealing.
> what are the main things that draw people to alternatives?

Speed.
Graphene only supports the pixel line, and part of the reason is because that's one of the very few (if not the only?) phones that let you relock the bootloader after installing a replacement ROM
I’m sure all of this will be played out in spectacular fashion in the courts of British Columbia in the coming months. Directors in BC are liable for unpaid wages to employees. No doubt they pulled the rug just in time to ensure people got their statutory severance. But beyond that, anyone hoping for more will have to get in a long line behind secured creditors. Man this sucks.
I would not trust OpenAI to retain my chats given that their model for what is a TOS-violating conversation evolves every week or every month.

Any outputs they generate that one finds useful need to be retained outside their walled-garden.
Yes, this seems to be what happened.

(But the specific accounts mentioned by the GP were a bit of a special case.)
Have "unsafe levels" been established, or are we just assuming that any is bad?

Edit: I see they appear to be using the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) intake limits for most of their tests.
> I'm happy to have something like SSE but the protocol needs more time to cook.

Just how well done do you like your protocols? SSE has been part of the WHATWG standard for almost 20 years.

Every protocol requires some sort of data encoding. For SSE you need to either restrict yourself to payloads that can never conflict with the message structure (e.g. an enumeration of short strings to indicate different sorts of events), or you need to encode the data.

It sounds like you are trying to send raw, unencoded data and are surprised that it sometimes conflicts with the message structure. Well of course it does! You can’t blame the protocol for that.
This is rather sudden. I see in earlier news that DivestOS was submitted to the FLOSS/fund in November.
One thing that strikes me about the photos I've flipped through so far, is being that LAN parties rarely have adequate sunlight, they're pretty consistently flash photography on film, and I think this effects how people respond (or are otherwise caught in the act) to having their photo taken. Nowadays phones have sensitive enough sensors to not need flash, and have infinite storage so you're unlikely to just take one 'snap' and move on -- so for anyone in the field of view of a person holding up their smart phone, you don't know precisely what moment was captured, or whether its a video being recorded, and I just think there's a subtle shift in behavior when you don't know whether an image is being captured or not.

Just thinking out loud, as someone who's recently picked up film photography again to see how it changes what pictures I get. Thanks for the effort collecting all these in one place.
50 Years of the Rubik's Cube
nothing is worse than a skypy music stream

and nothing is better than holding things that have a presence all there own, especialy for live performances

to be fair, plenty of live stuff, with video is now availible to anyone with a phone....and a solid signal, that would otherwise stay buried

and lots of stuff from the last 20 years, never got pressed

and then there are the mad men blinking furiously terabite drives stacked up, torn between doing whatever they were supposed too, and filling any drives you might have handy, with 1500 hrs of various and sundry bootleg recordings, with of course there own personal sound track,playing....
"you GOT TO HEAR THIS!"
Ability to write wasn’t the original literacy! It’s about reading. If you can’t read code or commentary about code how are you supposed to write good code or formulate new ideas about what good code should be and propagate those?
all chats are stored locally, so there are no privacy concerns either
That’s what they want you to think. The sailors on the Iranian aircraft carrier and the Bigfoot pay close attention to FAA regulations.
I love 1password's "Show in Large Type" feature, which shows your password in a large monospace font with symbols and numbers clearly differentiated. Makes it super easy to see and type on another device (like when you have it open on your phone and use it to log in on another computer). https://blog.1password.com/posts/2018/b5x1.10/large-type.png

Small touches like that are awesome, and why I'm happy to pay for 1password over the OS or browser password managers or competitors like Bitwarden.

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For my company's support team, they often had to reset customer passwords over the phone (I know, how archaic). I copied that 1password look and then added the NATO phonetic alphabet below each letter / number so they can easily read the entire password out loud (like "whiskey tango foxtrot delta zero zero delta"). Last I heard, that one tiny tweak (which took twenty minutes to add) ended up saving them hours on the phone each day just by preventing a bunch of misspoken/misheard passwords.
Love it. Web pages like this are what the old Internet used to be. A dying breed now though.
Unpaywalled link has been posted already
> “Thirty per cent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child... It is actually hard to imagine — that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.”

It isn't hard to imagine, if you've spent any time on internet message boards or social media. The level of reading comprehension is astonishingly low. Heck, even the willingness to read short articles is low, let alone to understand them. I'm not by any means excepting places like Hacker News from this.
"Orally administered CC improved the cognitive decline induced by a high-fat diet"

Does this mean that:

1. the cognitive decline was improved and therefore the decline hastened

or

2. something else?
The one time I tried to embed Lua in a C project (which included C-based functions I could call from Lua and setting up variables from C that were visible in Lua), I constantly struggled with trying to figure out when I needed to push/pop things from the stack and it just seemed very error-prone and easy to leak memory with. Different functions seem to have different requirements for when/if you should push/pop things and the documentation was not always clear to me.

Has this changed any?
> No they can't because they make stuff up, fail to follow directions, need to be minutely supervised, all output checked and workflow integrated with your companies shitty over complicated procedures and systems.

What’s the difference between what you describe and what’s needed for a fresh hire off the street, especially one just starting their career?
> This really has to stop.

"We", the totally homogeneous group of software professionals could make this stop. "We" don't.
Please, let's not normalize this idea. No Canadian in their right mind wants to become American.

Trump is a lunatic, end of story.
It used to in older (pre 2.0) versions, but due to Python's GIL lock (and the fact Python's quite a bit slower than lua anyway), it was pretty slow an inefficient using Python with AttributeScripts, so 2.0 moved to Lua with OpScripts...
I did, yes it is nice, I don't know if it's even possible for most folks. The only way to get a house in my case was to buy it with family and split it (in our case it was one big old house that'd been converted to a duplex nearly a century ago, so while it's one building it's well set up for two families to live separately).

The benefits they talk about are real, but I don't know how realistic this is as a recommendation. I suspect few folks will find themselves not only able to buy housing (or a portion of housing), but also able to do so with folks whom they trust enough to make such a big commitment.

I'm curious what other folks think about such situations and recommendations though. Is it a realistic recommendation?
Are you sure that always providing the best guess would make output deterministic? Isn’t the fundamental point of learning, whether done my machine or human, that our best gets better and is hence non-deterministic? Doesn’t what is best depend on context?
Spotify is full of AI music
nope it hasn't.

People have been used to infringe copyright on the internet for decades but this has never been right.

If you want to be able to share stuff you don't own the right for, change the laws.
Yes of course you can run it on your local machine... But the architecture of this specific model makes it extremely inefficient to run this locally for a single user. Here's why:

- to LOAD the model, you need at least 768GB of VRAM, which means 10xH100 GPUs or similar.

- to QUERY the model, it then uses one of the 37GB layers to perform the computation at any given time, which means that each GPU can process 2 queries concurrently - (37 * 2 < 80) - and the queries are very fast because of this.

So a single user setup would involve a crazy expensive rack of 10 h100 GPUs that can essentially process 20 concurrent requests almost as quickly as it can process 1 request in a single user mode...

The result is that the model is extremely cheap to operate if served as a SaaS, but ridiculously expensive for a single user setup
I've read this whole thread twice and I'm struggling to understand what you're saying. Are you saying that if all life is suffering then ending all life is morally permissible? In that case, what do you do with the life of someone who says they're not suffering?
I didn't bash anybody - that's words in my mouth.

I understand that it's a sensitive subject, students that stray from the boundaries of the lesson plan, so often to no good effect. Making work for an overworked teacher, I have complete sympathy.

But understand that there's also room for the teacher that doesn't stomp their own foot and petulantly demand every student stay in the herd like good little scholars.

Maybe even encourage exceptional students, maybe suggest something more appropriate for them, another class perhaps. But no, that certainly didn't happen, just the deliberate ignoring of the effort spent, because it didn't serve their tiny objective.

Just that one weary, autocratic bland statement, telegraphing as sure as a digital signal "I am the teacher, and you will not do anything I don't sanction, like learning way more than I demand for today's lesson"
While being more opaque & difficult to self-correct for. How much more work are we talking about? A theoretical couple of minutes in a year? Not worth it.
Is there still the issue of third party Android launchers being treated as second-class, not allowed access to features like gesture navigation? I haven't used one in a while.
Well fuck.

How can I test for effects from endocrine-disrupting chemicals on my children? Are there blood tests that check for this?
Please define severe. At worst your account on a platform is deleted. This is not severe.
One small thing on iOS: the clock app icon shows the actual time.
>I worry a lot less about my career now. It really is a tool that creates more work for me rather than less.

when i was a team/project leader the largest part of my work was talking to the reports on what needs to be implemented and how they are going to implement it and the current progress of the implementation, how to interface the stuff, what are the issues and how to approach the troubleshooting, what are the next steps, etc. with occasional looking into/reviewing the code - it looks to me what working with coding LLM would soon be quite similar to that.
I'm not sure that's at all the same thing with the extremely high rate of violent crime involving guns in Brazil. Pointing a gun straight at a city background, missing your specific target, and still injuring/killing somebody is very different from pointing a gun at the sky and having the 170 ft/s bullet fall, manage to hit that same highly populated region, and cause problems.
Not 'using'. Writing. In assembler. A full RPN calculator.

Which, by the way, required accomplishing those bullet points many times over. Obvious to anybody who's ever written anything in assembler.
so the interpretation happens inside the soul? otherwise it matters very little if a specific computation happens in a silicone chip or a human neuron...
Or, in California, buy a single-family urban home and subdivide it under SB-9.
45% of Amazon Japan delivery drivers involved in accident: survey
previously

100 comments: Oct 4, 2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37734531
Be ware of availability bias. Wanikani is wildly popular, with a massive number of users. It dominates that particular space. And with a large user base, they will have a vocal minority advocating for changes. On the other hand I have met a fair number of users in the wild and not a single one has complained about this.
In 2023 highlights your link says: " We maintained 64% carbon-
free energy, on average, across
every grid where we operate—even
as our electricity use increased."
The firmware would need to be certified. They mentioned that in the q&a couple of minutes ago.

Apparently its a critical component.
Linux's Preempt Lazy Support Coming to Power CPUs
The calendar shows the actual date too, right?